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Robert Ames was a CIA operations officer and Near East Director who was killed in the 1983 Beirut embassy bombing. He was also a former NCAA basketball player who won the championship with La Salle University in 1954.
Apr 22, 2014 · A biography of the CIA officer who opened a channel with the PLO in the 1970s Middle East. The book reveals the challenges, dangers and tragedies of his clandestine mission and its implications for U.S. policy.
May 22, 2014 · Robert Ames was the CIA officer who created the first clandestine contacts with the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was among those killed in the April 1983 truck bomb attack that destroyed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.
Oct 20, 2014 · Robert Ames was an influential CIA operative in the Middle East who was killed in the blast that leveled the U.S. embassy in Beirut in April 1983. Bird argues that for more than a decade, Ames was the sole U.S. conduit to Yasir Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
May 23, 2014 · The letter-writer was Robert Ames, one of the U.S. government’s top specialists on the Middle East, who would be killed in a 1983 truck bombing in Beirut.
May 19, 2014 · Among the Americans killed was Robert Ames, the subject of Kai Bird's book, "The Good Spy." Ames was the CIA's top Arabist (ph), one who defied many stereotypes about that trade.
